The means of transportation to the capital is still trains, and train tickets are getting more and more expensive due to freight transportation.

The rails are still the same as before, and the speed of the train powered by the steam engine has never been faster, it is slow, and it can't walk much in a day, at least in the eyes of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan.

Hundreds of them directly chartered ten carriages, as well as the goods brought back, which also occupied the position of the passenger car, of course, the money had to be spent, otherwise it would not be easy to enter the account.

"We also need to speed up the laying of railroad tracks." Dangling in the train, Becky suddenly spoke.

Liu Yan, who was escorted, was not locked up anywhere else, and was still with Zhang Xiaobao and them, but the two hands were tied up, and Zhang Xiaobao needed to ask him well.

Because if he is escorted back to be tried, he will not be allowed to die, let alone stand on Suzaku Street, and the county order cannot let him continue to go now, but he must arrange a new place to see how he is doing.

At this time, Liu Yan didn't know what his fate would be in the future, anyway, he was arrested, and the reason for being arrested was also very strong, so he pondered that he could be free for a while, so he didn't have any respect for Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, in fact, he hadn't been respectful before, otherwise he wouldn't have thought of stepping on Zhang Xiaobao's position.

When he heard Xiaobei's words, he laughed twice and said to Xiaobei: "Add rails, do you know how much rails cost?" Now, if you don't fight the cannibals, save cannonballs and bullets, and maybe add another railroad track. Fighting, labor and money, and what if the war is over? Can you go over and occupy someone's land and farm it yourself? ”

"You know what? I can't even make a plan for economic development, and I still have the face to discuss national affairs with me, and I said that the number of railroad tracks will be increased according to the current line, but only in some stations, so that railway resources can be used more rationally.

Theoretically, this railway is actually sufficient, it is twelve hours of uninterrupted people and goods at the speed of 800 miles of urgent transmission on the entire railway line, but it is only a problem in scheduling, so that the railway is always idle. By adding rails to the station, the loading does not need to occupy the normal operation of the road, and once the people and things are loaded and the train goes out, it will immediately join the use of the main line tracks. ”

Xiaobei looks like I know better than you. said a lot of words to Liu Yan.

"Wouldn't it be better if we didn't fight?" Liu Yan is still talking about this issue.

He did have a small group of people in the anti-war faction. The reason of the anti-war faction is that if the soldiers are not used to fight, but all the soldiers are invested in the infrastructure construction of Datang, it will not only make Datang more prosperous. And it can also save a lot of war materials.

Now is a critical period for the development of the domestic economy, and long-distance warfare is harmful and useless for the entire Datang, the most important thing is not only to fight a war and to spend money, but also to invest a lot of money in the research of weapons. That's not right, the current weapons are good enough, others don't dare to fight, why bother researching more powerful weapons?

"You know the." Without waiting for Xiaobei to say anything, a person who came in with a cart to deliver hot water got angry at Liu Yan first.

In fact, he didn't need to deliver water at all, and he was not an ordinary attendant, he was the captain of the train, but he wanted to take a good look at Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan up close, so he had to push a car over.

I heard someone there saying something against the war. couldn't help but scold, and after scolding, he found that this nonsense person was actually tied up, so he laughed and said: "It turned out to be a bad guy caught by Xiaobao and Juan Juan, no wonder he said something bad here." You're done. You were caught by them personally, and you still want to do it? ”

"What does it have to do with you? I'm telling the truth, if I don't fight, I will use all my resources to develop Datang. The days will be better than they are now. ”

Liu Yan looked like a broken jar and lifted his chin. Motioned for everyone to look outside.

The windows of the passenger cars are glass, and not every carriage and every train has glass windows, and it costs a lot of money to sit in such a place, which can be regarded as a kind of differentiation, and at the same time can increase the income of the railway.

Whether it is Zhang Xiaobao or Wang Juan, they have never thought of a one-size-fits-all approach, it is unrealistic, rich people need an act to show their identity after all.

The windows of the train are very thick, they are also pulled up and down, and there are buckles, but there is no kind of double-layer insulation structure, because the speed of the train is not fast, so it can be opened when it is not cold.

Looking at the scenery outside along the way, eating the fast food made in the train, it is a very good enjoyment for many people nowadays, even if they are always on the train, they always have to talk to others about the train, and what is the name of the place outside, and what kind of story has been.

The weather is not very cool now, and it even feels stuffy at noon, so the windows are half open, and the wind pours up from the outside, and the curtains swing back and forth, but no one fixes the curtains, and it seems that feeling this wind is also a project of taking the train.

Seeing Liu Yan's signal, everyone followed him over, the train had just left Luoyang and was heading west, and the place where it was repaired was also by the river, from where the water of the Yellow River could be seen.

It's really yellow, even if you don't deliberately think that this river is the Yellow River, the water can't be seen to be clear, but obviously, Liu Yan is not letting everyone see how the water is, but looking at the scenery on the river.

There are a lot of boats on the Yellow River, the small boats are walking close to the shore, and in the middle of the big boats, no one can swim in the river anymore, and every big boat has a flag fluttering, and the words written on it represent what person or force it belongs to.

"See?" Liu Yan spoke out at the right time: "This is the current prosperity of my Datang, unlike before, most of the boats on the river are fishing boats, or boats that ferry between the two banks. Fighting with the foody, you read the newspapers some time ago, right? I, Datang, dispatched 10,000 ships of all kinds.

Ten thousand, not ten, not a hundred, do you know what the ship that goes out is like? It's all big boats, and a single boat can hold hundreds of people.

If you don't send it over and put it in the current river, why do you need those small boats to be busy going around, not to mention the location of the river, the speed is slow, and the goods loaded are as few as people, which is called waste and waste of resources.

There are also teams to transport supplies, isn't it good to transport the materials needed in various places? Coupled with the production of the cannon, countless metals were consumed. Technology is still invested, tilted towards the military, what is this called? This is called not being able to distinguish between priorities and priorities. ”

The more Liu Yan spoke, the more excited he became, and after speaking, he looked up to the sky and sighed, looking like everyone was drunk and I was awake.

Zhang Xiaobao looked at the scene on the river outside. Nodding with satisfaction: "The development is really good." As a large river for water transport, the transformation and maintenance of the Yellow River must be further strengthened, and I don't want to see it lose its role as water transport. ”

Wang Juan nodded, she knew very well what Zhang Xiaobao was talking about. At that time, the Yellow River was always cut off, and in some places it rained heavily and was affected, and in some places it was possible to wade through the middle of the river, and the dry season and flood season were not so regular, and the result was that they wanted to have no river. No, if you want to make good use of it, no.

The conductor sighed: "It's so good, thinking about the past, I didn't dare to dream of the day now, who could dream that we would go out and no longer have to walk with dry food, and we wouldn't have to hire a donkey cart to spend a lot of money."

With such a thing called a train, a car can pull a lot of people. It seems that the ticket is expensive, but it saves time, it is really calculated, and it is cheaper than walking with dry food, and the main thing is safety. It's much more reassuring than doing it yourself and running out into the wilderness at night.

It shows that everyone's life is better, I have been a car commander for three years, and I have never seen a person in unclothed clothes. Because there was no escape, the government had already arranged it. The people have work to do, there are things to do, and the children have books to read, and these days, I have to think about it every day before I go to bed, and I will be beautiful in my heart for a while. ”

"Look at that boat, that one, the green flag, someone is flying a kite, it's still a child, but don't be pulled by the kite and fall, I can't save it."

Xiaobei also watched, and suddenly pointed to the boat on the river, there was a child standing on the deck flying kites and playing, and there was smoke rising from other places, it was estimated that it was not a fire, but someone was eating barbecue, and life was good.

When the two of them spoke, Liu Yan was dissatisfied, snorted, and said: "What I'm saying is that if you don't fight and put all the money here, the people's lives will be better than now." I heard that the Ministry of Industry has made good things again, except for the officials in the capital who use it, that is, the army of the Tang Dynasty is using it, the kind that is better than the steam engine, why not use it on merchant ships? ”

"Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand, do you think your brothers and sisters want to fight, don't you want to fight?" Xiao Hai, who has always disliked talking, finally couldn't help but speak.

"You only know that there is a new machine, but do you know what the new machine is used for? It's oil, it's got out of the oil, and there is a lot of oil to eat, and if you don't fight, can they send it to us? Look at my Datang's oil, it's not easy to dig.

My brother and sister also said that the quality of Datang's oil is worse than that of Duo Cannibal. Also, the war is also to divert domestic contradictions, you only see the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, haven't you analyzed the hidden dangers that will appear behind the prosperity, you are a hidden danger, under the slogan of economic development, do dirty things, hum! ”

"Isn't the new thing coal-burning?" Liu Yan really didn't know the secret of the Ministry of Industry, and asked suspiciously, his voice was much quieter, and his confidence was insufficient.

"Burning coal? In addition to the steam engine to burn coal, what else can you see that can use coal? Coal doesn't play a big role. Xiao Hai gave Liu Yan a disdainful look.

Zhang Xiaobao coughed and said: "Xiaohai, in fact, this coal can really be used in other machines, first of all, we have to process the coal first, and wait for our Datang technology to come up, you will see, you will." ”

"Oh, you can use it." Xiao Hai looked a little embarrassed, he had just finished teaching people, only to find out that the lesson was wrong.

Zhang Xiaobao said to Liu Yan again: "Your grade is not enough, so I won't explain many things to you, and there is no need for that, you just need to know that Juan Juan and I think more long-term than you, the country's economic development is a game of chess, the people who play are us, and there is no chance to return to chess, what Juan Juan and I need is support, trust, not a stab in the back."

We hurried back, it is precisely because of the emergence of some magistrates like you, compared to the foreign war, you are the most worrying to us, we never thought that we would lose, but there will be big problems in the local people's livelihood at home.

After all, this is a society governed by individuals, and the most helpless thing is that it is not possible to give orders and give orders, and one by one local officials use their own small calculations to find all kinds of excuses to harm the people, and in the end it is useless to kill him, so your mind is the most hateful. ”

There are many things that cannot be eliminated at all, and we can only do everything possible to minimize the losses, and the officials' salaries must be improved, and the inspectors must be sent non-stop, and one is caught by one.

"Yes. The most hateful, anyone who is caught by Xiaobao and Juan Juan is hateful. The conductor echoed.

For him, it doesn't matter what mistakes the arrested officials in front of him have made, what matters is who arrested him, and how can Xiaobao and Juan Juan still arrest the wrong person?

There was a pause. The conductor said again: "You officer." Don't pretend to understand, Xiaobao and Juan Juan are much more powerful than you, you are much older than them, why didn't you take the lead in improving the lives of the people? You think the current weapon is useful. What if someone else does the same? I can't talk to you, don't be unconvinced. ”

After teaching Liu Yan a lesson, the conductor who had already seen Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan leave happily, and he had other people in the carriage to take care of.

Other carriages are not like here, they are full. Even the aisles were crowded with people, and some people got under the seats.

When it is time to eat, the whole carriage is full of all kinds of flavors, but even so, there are still a lot of people who take the train, compared to walking by themselves, from Luoyang to the capital, or take the train fast, and get to the place in one day. If you go, you will have to walk for a month.

The conductor in charge of a train is very satisfied with his work, and he has a lot of knowledge about people who can see the north and south of the world and listen to them talk about things in various places.

The most important thing is that he still has a little power, and he can arrange a good position for his acquaintances. You don't even need to buy tickets, and when you are in an empty space, you can sell some goods from both places, which is an extra income.

The conductor thought so. The more I thought about it, the happier I became, humming a tune that had changed my tune for I don't know how many times. Pushing his boiling water truck, he plans to personally serve the other passengers today.

He didn't know that his behavior was exactly where Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were helpless, normally speaking, he shouldn't do this, but he couldn't manage it, every person in society would find a way to make the best use of his power, even if it was just a person who watched the door.

Not to mention officials, but officials can be more dangerous than a car commander.

After two meals on the train, the train finally swayed to the capital in the middle of the night, and it could have been faster, but there was another car to intervene, and the station stopped, station and wait, and the time was wasted.

The railway station in the capital is not in the main area of the capital, there are a total of six lanes, four lanes are for loading and unloading goods, and two lanes are for people.

The reason why the station is not put in the innermost part is because the number of goods is too large, and it needs to be unloaded and transported to other places, and the carriages run around and put them in the main place, either hitting people or being delayed by pedestrians.

Like Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan's trains at that time, the station is now brightly lit, with some working and some waiting to go out, and they care whether the time is day or night.

Almost everyone waiting for the train prepares one or several large packages with food in them, after all, the food on the train is too expensive, or something to be taken to other places, and they are chatting there in different local accents, which sets off the station very lively.

The difference is that there are no thieves here, to be precise, the profession of thieves is about to become extinct in Datang, and anyone who is caught for theft and robbery will not cut off their hands or beat them, and will be sent directly to work in the mining area.

When the theft is discovered, there is no one who directly draws the knife, otherwise they will be beaten to death, and even if they survive, they will be beaten until they are sent to the government.

It feels like this new law is very inhumane, but the effect is very good, after all, not everyone has nothing to do, and they specialize in the profession of thieves and robbers, and if they catch a group of people who do their work, there will be fewer thieves on the market.

Today, the people waiting for the train at the station in the capital found that the situation was different, the number of security personnel around them increased significantly, and they could even see the army of the capital appearing, patrolling back and forth in groups of several people.

In the middle of the night, there was a sound of horses' hooves, rumbling like a train, and by the light, looking up, the literate people immediately knew what kind of team was coming.

"Fan Metro Riding Camp? Who are you going to catch? Coming by train? A man carrying a large package, seeing the flags in the cavalry ranks, said to a good person next to him who had just chatted well, it can be seen that he has the meaning of showing off, he knows the Fan Metro Cavalry Battalion.

The people who listened to him were also very cooperative, looking at the team that came over curiously, and asked, "This is the legendary Iron Cavalry Battalion?" ”

"Uh-huh!" The man nodded, and then said: "The Iron Cavalry Battalion is a gift from Xiaobao to Juan Juan, a battalion of eight battalions, a total of eight thousand, each can fight well, and one person can be found in it, and he has at least three lives in his hands. Usually, they always take turns to go to the northeast of the grassland and fight with the local people, just to prevent them from giving birth.

You can't easily see them in the capital, and even if you do, you can't recognize them, and they don't usually fly flags. There are also no markings on the clothes on the body. But. I'm talking about it, but as soon as they put on the marked clothes and also raised the banner of the Iron Cavalry Battalion, something must happen. ”

"Oh. Oh, I see, you know so much, big brother. The obedient man said enviously, he really didn't know, he was not from the capital. He came to the capital to send his children to participate in the imperial examination next spring, and if the children stayed, he had to go back, and by the way, he would bring some special products that had been transported to the capital from other places, and go to his hometown to show the villagers.

"I am from the capital, my ancestors have lived in the capital for three generations, and I also want to go to the West Lake to have a relative. Just right, I'll talk to you on the way. ”

"That's great, big brother, you see, there's another bunch of people. There are words on the chest, who is it? ”

"Huh? There are words, I see, my God. Jin Wuwei? Brother, that's Kim Wuwei. Protecting the emperor was wrong, it was wrong before, the Iron Cavalry Battalion was not here to arrest people, it should have come to pick people up. The man was astonished, and his voice trembled.

The other also opened his mouth, swallowed after a while, and asked, "Who?" The emperor is coming? ”

"Absolutely, otherwise what else Jin Wuwei came out to do? Nurse team? I know who to pick up, did you read the newspaper the other day? said that Xiaobao and Juan Juan are back, and it is estimated that when they arrive in the capital today, His Majesty may be in a hurry, so he came over in person, in the middle of the night, when will I come back, just send a seven-grade official to greet him. ”

"Big brother, we are counting on it, do you say that I can see Xiaobao and Juan Juan with my own eyes for a while? I've never seen a real person, I saw Your Majesty in the movie, it would be nice if Xiaobao and Juan Juan also filmed. ”

"You have to see which lane you enter, a total of two, if you are lucky, maybe you can really take a look at it from a distance, you have to be far away, you can't get close, the station is crowded, in case anyone has bad intentions, it will not be good to hurt Xiaobao and Juan Juan."

"You know, I won't go if you let me get closer."

Li Longji really came, he was idle, he really had nothing to do, just got the news that Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan came over, and he couldn't sleep when he thought about it, so he asked Gao Lishi to organize people to greet him at the train station together, ask about the situation outside, and at the same time show that he attaches importance to Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan.

As a result, as soon as he came out, other officials also got the news, whether they were sleeping or doing other things, they got up one after another, dressed up, and came to the station, the emperor paid attention to it, who would dare to stay at home.

Of course, all the officials who came were above the fifth grade, and they all wanted to see what happened to Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, who had been running outside for a long time.

The benefits of the war have already been felt, first of all, slaves, and before the war was over, more than 160,000 slaves were sent to various dangerous mining areas.

Then there is the meat and fur of various animals, the meat is salty, very salty and salty, usually no one likes to eat, but it is hunted from a distant place, and it feels different to eat, the first batch has been transported to the capital, and each family has also divided a little.

In fact, those who are qualified to participate in the pilgrimage meeting have deeply felt the recent speed of domestic economic development, especially the statistics obtained last month, and the people who participated in labor training in the early stage in many places have begun to play a role.

The work efficiency is obviously different from before, and in some places it has even doubled, and the grain production has also increased, and the data of the autumn harvest are there.

Not to mention the distance, only the capital, to the nearby workshops, docks, and stations, it is a busy scene, and there are almost no idlers.

Originally, I thought that the domestic economy would stagnate or temporarily regress during the period when the war was launched, but I did not expect that the domestic economy would increase even more during the war, which was different from the previous wars.

As Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan said, active and controlled war can promote domestic economic prosperity, in the process of war, not only to consume materials, but also to increase new jobs and accelerate the transformation of production technology into productivity.

That's right, as they said, the domestic production efficiency was really low before, not fully developed, there is consumption to produce, and production will force people with active minds to find technology.

"Seems simple, doesn't it?" When Li Longji was waiting for the train to arrive, he also told the people next to him about it.

Standing next to him was Yu Wenrong, who didn't go home tonight, but stayed at the night of the middle school secretary. It was just together when it came out.

Yu Wenrong pondered for a moment and shook his head: "It's not simple, it's really good to calculate the time, it just so happens that as soon as the war is fought over there, the national policy will be passed in China." Twelve. If it is sent early, it will not show the effect, and if it is sent late, it will be messy. The use of war to stimulate demand and divert new contradictions that have arisen in the process of domestic economic development.

If Xiaobao hadn't brought it up, let me think, I wouldn't have been able to think of it anyway. Now the entire Datang industry seems to have been sorted out, as long as you want to do things. Everyone has something to do, and it is easier for the magistrates to manage the localities, so as long as they do not make a fool of themselves and deal with them in accordance with normal economic development, they can wait for this year's fiscal revenue to increase.

At the same time, he entered the army to be a compulsory soldier for a period of time, and there were fewer idle people in his usual life, and with the publicity of Your Majesty's movie, the people's hearts were more stable. ”

Li Longji listened, his eyes narrowed with a smile. I know that this year's treasury will be more abundant, and when the time comes, we can use it to carry out local infrastructure construction, build roads, build bridges, and so on, and subsidize part of it for medical care and part of it for education. Who dares to say that he is not Mingjun?

Has anyone in all dynasties done this far? Have it?

The more he thought about Li Longji, the happier he became, and asked Yu Wenrong, "What else should I do now?" ”

"The policy of high salaries and honest maintenance must be carried out, and more inspections should be dispatched. But if he catches it, he will be sentenced severely. The minister had consulted with other colleagues on the matter, and the most dangerous thing now was not the corruption of officials. Rather, for the sake of political performance, the project is carried out without considering the local situation.

As a result, the money was invested, the people mobilized, and in the end, there was no corresponding benefit, but the unreasonable project used up the money, and the people suffered in vain, and what was lost was not only the money of the court and the people's money, but the people's hearts.

There is also a telegram sent back by Xiaobao when he was in Hongnong before, Liu Yan is a person who is eager to show himself and make achievements, and even dares to overturn the plan set by Xiaobao for the locality, isn't this crazy?

Since Xiaobao's plan has been overturned, let alone other officials. Therefore, the minister and other colleagues felt that the rules of evaluation should be reformulated, not to say how much a magistrate's finances increased in a place, or how quickly money circulated.

It should be, when you were a magistrate, how much did you use all kinds of valuable local resources, how much did the people's income increase, how many people did not find a job, and you just want to take a data to prove that your grades are good, we don't agree. ”

Yu Wenrong said a lot, he knew that this was his business, if he waited for Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan to mention it, he would be derelict in his duties, the two of them had a good foundation, did all the rest of the matter have to be handed over to the two of them? Then what do you want to do with this Chinese book order?

Li Longji was satisfied with Yu Wenrong's answer, and said: "A new era has begun, and new problems will arise in the new era. ”

"What Your Majesty said is very much, I have to study more in ordinary times, and often analyze with my colleagues, if the minister sat in this position ten years ago, and suddenly appeared the current development scene of the Tang Dynasty, the minister will directly resign, and the minister can't understand such a complicated correlation between the industry and policies.

In the case of land, the ministers would think of making a change to allow the deserters to be renaturalized, give them land to cultivate, and reduce the rent of the newly opened land.

However, now let the minister say, the minister will not solve the land problem so simply, but start from other aspects at the same time, just like the twelve national policies that Xiaobao took out.

If you can't keep up with the speed of this change and prepare in advance, once there is a problem, it will be difficult to solve it.

Therefore, the new era is good, but the problems we are facing are also more complex, and we officials need to further improve our ability and level, and we must study hard. ”

Yu Wenrong analyzed the current situation again, and the expression on his face was very grim.

Li Longji is no longer smiling, he also knows that the current development speed of Datang is too fast, especially when some technologies are transferred to civilian use, all kinds of problems will appear, and sometimes he will suddenly wake up when he sleeps, thinking that this is a dream.

Gao Lishi next to him suddenly spoke up, breaking the heavy atmosphere at the moment: "Your Majesty, in fact, don't worry too much, Xiaobao and Juan Juan are not very old. ”

"Yes, Lux is right, there are also Xiaobao and Juan Juan, I found that they are not tired of control, they can be said to be at ease, every step has been calculated, what will be arranged for them to do this time?"

Li Longji was relieved, but he began to worry about setting a position for Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan.

This is true not only of him, but of the entire court of officials.

When there was silence, the roar of a train could be heard in the distance.

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